wrong forum...should be in OT and if those fucking idiots want to live in Idaho, there are U-Haul trucks everywhere
I think we should re-introduce the idea of territories. Let all the crazies have all the freedom and the guns they want and let us elect sane people at the federal level.
They want to live in Idaho without moving. Hey, I want to live in Canada without moving - I wonder if I can get to do that too!
I say let them go, those regions of Oregon are net losses on the states tax revenues. Let them be Idaho's burden if they can talk Idaho into it.
meth and government subsidies. Pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, the way god intended. barfo
If we allowed this, all rural areas would just become available to the highest bidder--whichever state was willing to give them the best anti-socialism handouts and subsidies. It would be hell on the map-makers. No one ever considers the cartographers.
how about the trucking industry? yeah im delivering in the same state today. Yeah? Where at? 5 states over….
Yup, across the entire nation. Rural areas in the western, central and eastern US could all be part of Idaho. Or Mississippi.
They should be careful for what they ask for. The 5 (ish) counties that want to join Idaho? Their *total* population is bupkiss. Malheur 30K people. Sherman 1800 Grant 7300 Baker 17K Lake 8K That's about 65K people. Throw in Harney (7300) These guys are in for a shock when they wake up and realize that the tri county area (Mult, Clack and Washington) have 1.8 million people in it. That's 28X the population, and also means much more of the money for the state comes from us. So good luck with this. Hell, Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties alone have more people in them than the ENTIRE state of Idaho. Throw in Marion and Lane, and it's 2.6 million. What exactly are they thinking they're gaining by doing this? They're just thinning the pot for Idaho, and making it better for the rest of the state of Oregon.
All my all town conservatives friends think the electoral college should be adopted on a state level.
That's arguably the dumbest thing ever uttered. They realize it's population based, right? So it wouldn't be a 1 to 1 county vs county thing (since it's not for the states/general election). It'd still be weighted in the favor of the more populous counties. I.e., no, malhuer county shouldn't have the same voting power as Clackamas.